Re: Bug#493951: libpkg-guide: recommendations are contrary to accepted best practices
tags 493951 +help
thanks
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 07:32, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: libpkg-guide
> Version: 0.0.20070413
> Severity: serious
>
> The libpkg-guide that has been packaged and is now in the archive gives
> recommendations regarding -dev package naming which are not at all
> representative of a consensus in Debian. We already have problems with
> library maintainers inserting sonames into their -dev package names based on
> the unclear/misguided advice of this document; shipping it in a stable
> release would be seen by many as an endorsement by the Debian project, and
> no such endorsement exists. There *particularly* isn't such an endorsement
> from the Debian release team, for whom gratuitous -dev package name changes
> make library transitions more difficult by orders of magnitude.
>
> This package should not be included in a stable release until the
> recommendations have been revised to reflect best practices.
I waited long, then I finally decided to ask for help to fix this bug.
Sadly, I don't have the time to properly read all the documentation
and forge a patch to the current package (and Junichi is in the same
situation).
So I'm here to ask for your help in fixing it.
Thanks in advance,
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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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